As a teacher, it is important that I train myself to give good feedback to my students. Giving bad feedback could totally ruin the learning process for a student; it could have a very bad negative effect. I hope to train myself to give good feedback by appropriately commenting on my peers' blogs. Through this process, I could take the time to learn how to write what I mean to say and to say it with both constructive criticism, but criticism that is encouraging.
Sunday, June 6, 2010
Giving Feedback -- Minilesson
Giving good feedback is something I want to continue to develop. I am certain I will get better at it the more I do it. In fact, I feel that I have improved a lot since I was younger. I can still remember getting called out in drama class as a middle schooler for providing negative criticism. I always tended to point out the "wrong" things. This is certainly hard for me as with my OCD I like everything to be perfect. When things aren't perfect, I have a tough time with it. Recently in the last few years, I have gotten better at this. While there are still some things I like to be perfect, particularly to appease my pride, I find more and more moments when I am okay with letting something be faulty.
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It is an excellent goal to have. It is also one that I feel that can be continuously improved upon.
ReplyDeleteI feel that I am MUCH better at giving positive constructive criticism as a dance instructor, than I am as a classroom teacher.
As a second grade teacher I feel like sometimes it is not always constructive criticism, it is more objective, and "good," "great," etc. I feel as though it is a little easier in writing to provide feedback. Whereas in math for example, there is a "right" answer and there are many "wrong" answers. But, I try to get them to explain their thinking at least.
I wish you luck with improving on this important skill. If you have an epiphanies, PLEASE share!
We have a classroom policy that is used by my students as well as myself! We do feedback for writing where we have a 4 comment setup: 1 positive statement, 2 suggestions for improvement and 1 clarifying question. Now that we have done this for a bit, it is easier to fit in the constructive criticism a little bit at a time.
ReplyDeleteI really like your idea. It gets the students to develop ideas for response rather than just saying "great" or "good job." They have a formula for creating good responses. I will certainly try this method.
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